I will unite with anyone to do good, but with no one to do harm.

What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.

Our destiny is largely in our hands.

I have no protection at home, or resting place abroad. ... I am an outcast from the society of my childhood, and an outlaw in the land of my birth. I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

The law on the side of freedom is of great advantage only when there is power to make that law respected.

You have to take power. No one gives it.